Stories by zdw

Vizio makes more money spying on people who buy TVs than it does on TVs

Optimizing Git’s merge machinery, #1

The bullet effects in Terminator 2 weren’t CGI

/dev/random – A New Approach

I ended up liking GNOME with the loss of one hand

Sound of the 2C33: The Famicom Disk System

I'm unsure of the security of simultaneous multithreading on modern x86 CPUs

Checking simple equations or inequalities with z3

Making an old USB printer support Apple AirPrint using a Raspberry Pi

ZFS Woes, or How ZFS Saved Me from Data Corruption

Reflections on Trusting ‘Trustlessness’ in the Era of “Crypto”/Blockchains [pdf]

Building a Stratum 1 Time Server for 16 bit DOS

A terrible schema from a clueless programmer

High Performance GPU Cooler for the Nvidia Tesla K80

The Worst Gadgets We’ve Ever Touched

NPM install is curl – bash

A spin-coater from SLA-printed parts

How to Use SMB over QUIC in Windows Server 2022

Compliance in a DevOps Culture

The high cost of software in the 1980s (2019)